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Re: Feedback and opinions on John Lewis own brand white good
nerdette wrote:
Some people won’t pay for quality, can’t understand why a £200 appliance can be any better than a £500 appliance.
Which is why I waited ten years before splashing out £1200 on a pair of active monitors for my home recording setup. Ten years ago I could have simply bought a pair of budget quality speakers for £200 approx and got what I deserved! However I waited and now I have speakers that make you gasp at how good the quality is and more importantly…….they make the job a lot easier and more comfortable/pleasing on the ears.
Usually by spending more you get a better product that will last for years. Sometimes you can be very unlucky too but generally things work out for the better.
Just looking back at this thread after over 3yrs and noticed I forgot to say thank you, so errr….
…Thank you Martin! 🙂
I had a Pod a few years back and it was hopeless, i.e. it picked up hardly any dust. The filter tended to clog up and not properly pass through into the collection part. Although I hoovered slowly and carefully, giving it every chance to pickup, plus making sure the filter was clear before and after use, I found it to be very disappointing. I used the Pod on my bedroom carpet and kitchen floor (minor crumbs).
Re: A good lightweight vacume cleaner for my mother (who is
We have a Panasonic MCE4013 bought in August 2004 and although it seemed very good at first, after a few months it started to exhibit faults which I later read about on the internet from other owners. The main faults are that it overheats and cuts out after only 15mins approx, despite being thoroughly cleaned before and after use. The burning is actually the smell of the motor slowly killing itself, and many other owners have suffered dead machines in a short space of time. One of the two dust collection cylinders never fills up and the filters get clogged far too easily. The exterior of the machine also becomes covered in a layer of dust, so in actual fact it is depositing dust back onto the carpets!
There are some features that I like about the hoover, such as the superb maneoverability, the handle, plus the other carrying handle is good. The pickup used to be good when it was new, but alas is nothing special now.
I’ve had experience of other hoovers both bagged and baggless and I would definitely recommend buying a Sebo. I’ve read about people who have owned them for 10yrs and then gone out and replaced them with the same model for another 10yrs. They seem to be second to none, including the Oreck and my next hoover will be a Sebo X4 Extra.
After MUCH thought we eventually bought the WFR 3268 model, although after 3yrs my mother wishes she had gone with the WFR 2868 I think. Next time she will buy another Mielé.
It has become noisy and rattles like crazy (cheap plastic), doesn’t rinse properly and there isn’t an option to simply do another quick rinse without launching a full wash cycle. The Mielé spun and rinsed far, far better at 1100rpm than the Bosch at similar speeds.
My mother can’t seem to accurately judge how much powder to put in this machine, i.e. on her old Mielé she could see the powder foaming enough to know there was enough whereas if the Bosch foams it’s too late as there is too much and it struggles, along with warning messages on the display and the machine stopping and needing attention. There are other annoying aspects to this machine and overall my mother says the bottom of the range Mielé is better than Bosch’s top model. The Bosch goes off balance everytime whereas the Mielé was pretty solid on any surface.
Thanks for the help though as it did influence my mother’s decision.
